Just a quick question, is there a site anyone knows of where you can get packages for Europa Park? Been looking and cant find any thing for packages!!! If it needs to be booked individually, has anyone got any good tips for hotels etc? Looking at going next April so plenty of time to plan if need be.

Just back from Pleasure Beach yesterday and away to Euro Disney in October which is already planned to a degree.

A massive fire has broken out at the worlds best theme park, Europa Park.

Looopings wrote:

The German theme park Europa-Park has been hit by a giant fire. This can be seen on images on social media.

The fire broke out at the darkride Pirates in Batavia in the Dutch theme area. Visitors to the official Europa-Park app are invited to leave and avoid the neighboring Scandinavian theme section as quickly as possible.

I've just seen this news and really hope that everyone is ok and there aren't any serious casulties.

Pirates in Batavia is going to be a huge loss for the park, judging by the images that have been published so far the fire looks quite substantial and I'd be surprised if there is much of the ride left Not only will the park have lost one of their largest dark rides, but the ride also had a restaurant incorporated into it so that will almost certainly have been lost too.

EuropaStreet are reporting that the fire is looking more under control. They are also reporting that other rides on the park are still operating as normal, and only the area immediately surrounding the fire was evacuated. Picture from EuropaStreet.

Edit: This video that has been posted on Twitter shows an aerial view of the fire.

Michael Mack has just confirmed on Twitter that the park have lost Piraten von Batavia and Norway completely, but so far no one has been hurt. Whilst this undoubtedly a huge loss for Europa, the main thing is that there doesn't seem to have been any injuries.